Welcome to the first installment of Stardust@home’s Duster of the Month! Each month we will highlight one of the many Stardust@home volunteers (or “Dusters”) in our blog. The questions asked are designed to enlighten us about the very important human aspects and motivations of the project’s most valuable asset. Each […]
We will be shutting down the site for about a week starting Monday May 7th and returning Monday May 14th with Phase V! Phase V, includes newly scanned data, A “Duster of the Month” feature, revised Skill scoring and re-calibrated Power movies. Thanks, Stardust at home
Although things have been relatively quiet for Stardust@home, there has been furious activity in the last six weeks on the manuscripts reporting the results of the Interstellar Preliminary Examination (ISPE), of which Stardust@home is the first part. The first part of the publication plan is a series of papers to be submitted to Meteoritics and Planetary […]
On the morning of Friday, Jan. 20, a team from NASA/JSC, the Smithsonian Institution, U. C. Berkeley, and Naval Research Laboratory successfully collected small samples from the Stardust Sample Return Capsule, which is on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. These samples will provide critical information about trace elements and minerals, […]